9 mei 2024 om 19:44 Update: 8 min. geleden
Venezuela officially has no glaciers anymore. Due to rising temperatures, La Corona, the last remaining glacier in the country, has lost its status. The glacier has become too small and is no longer producing new ice.
According to scientists, the surface area of La Corona had already shrunk from almost 4,500 square meters to less than 200 square meters last March.
The ice surface is now less than 100 square meters, about the size of a football field. That is the limit that glaciologists maintain to call it a glacier. The former glacier no longer produces ice.
La Corona has thus weakened to an ice field, says the ICCI, an international partnership of climate scientists.
Venezuela has had at least seven glaciers in the past century. These have all melted due to rising temperatures due to climate change. According to the ICCI, Venezuela is the first country to lose all its glaciers.
“Glaciers are valleys filled with ice, that is the official definition. That is why we can conclude that Venezuela has no glaciers left,” glaciologist Mark Maslin told BBC News.
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